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Music of Another World
Szymon Laks
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Paperback. The story of the orchestra at Auschwitz told by its conductor. Laks recounts the iconceivable spectacle of SS guards growing teary-eyed at the sound of familiar melodies and in the next moment giving themselves up to the furies of extermination. Translator(s): Kisiel, Chester Adam. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; AVH; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 224 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing description of a phenomenon seldom mentioned in the literature of the Holocaust: the presence of music among the crematoria. His story is a testament to the human spirit and to music itself, the beauty of which Laks and others honored even as the lives of so many were destroyed.
Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing description of a phenomenon seldom mentioned in the literature of the Holocaust: the presence of music among the crematoria. His story is a testament to the human spirit and to music itself, the beauty of which Laks and others honored even as the lives of so many were destroyed.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Series
Jewish Lives S.
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810118027
SKU
V9780810118027
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About Szymon Laks
Szymon Laks was born in Warsaw in 1901 and studied mathematics, musical composition, and conducting before leave Poland in 1925. He entered the Polish Conservatory in Paris in 1926 and became active among the many young Polish composers living there at the time. He was deported in 1941 and sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where he adapted the three Warsaw ... Read more
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